Rescue at long last. Down through the Space-X hatch and one them appears to be an alien, LOL.

 

It is bizarre how the media portraid those two as being 'Stranded'

When you are an astronaut you spend your entire life training to be in space, anytime that you are in space that is exactly where you want to be, just like a Chef in a Kitchen is not stranded, again where they are supposed to be.

The chef went in to work a normal shift but there was a cave-in and no one tried to get him out for 8 months.

Anyone still want to be an astronaut? 🙂 

Hook

PS. I guess I should expand on this a little.

When the space shuttle blew up, people were saying "How horrible, how horrible!" I'd ask them if there were another shuttle going up next week and they were given a chance to go on it, would they go? Their face would go blank, they'd stare off into the distance for a while, and no one said no.

Butch and Suni get back after an enforced extended stay in space. People say, "Yeah, so? Isn't that their job?" I'll ask if you want to go spend a week at the space station. The launch vehicle is a Boeing. Think you might wanna go for it? 

For myself, I think I'll just watch it on TV.

Hook

Edited March 18, 20251 yr by LHookins

poor sods wont be able to walk when they get back to this mess that is planet earth 

6 hours ago, LHookins said:

The chef went in to work a normal shift but there was a cave-in and no one tried to get him out for 8 months.

This is what people missed out on, those Astronauts got into that capsule knowing that plan B was going to be months in space, Plan B was never a stranding, it was Plan B. They ended up with Plan B which for them is the better outcome.

To be an astronaut you train your entire life to be in space, to end up with Plan B means more time in space, that is what they were born to do. Anyone sees this scenario with these astronauts as being stranded, that is the difference between you and an astronaut

As for the Chef, they are Workaholics, if they were to ever be 'stranded' in a kitchen they wouldn't even know it, because they are always there anyways. 🤣

 

On 3/18/2025 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Kane said:

This is what people missed out on, those Astronauts got into that capsule knowing that plan B was going to be months in space, Plan B was never a stranding, it was Plan B. They ended up with Plan B which for them is the better outcome.

To be an astronaut you train your entire life to be in space, to end up with Plan B means more time in space, that is what they were born to do. Anyone sees this scenario with these astronauts as being stranded, that is the difference between you and an astronaut

As for the Chef, they are Workaholics, if they were to ever be 'stranded' in a kitchen they wouldn't even know it, because they are always there anyways. 🤣

 

bit like pilots one once said to me "you spend your whole life trying to get into the seat, then the rest of it trying to get out of it."  very true.

Don't know why they keep saying, rescue. It was a scheduled Dragon flight.

If required, for instance an emergency, they could have been brought home any time.

Stranded is media and politics nonsense.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-defends-decisions-astronauts-says-222400996.html

 

Edited March 20, 20251 yr by martin-w

9 hours ago, martin-w said:

If required, for instance an emergency, they could have been brought home any time.

 

 

 

didnt really follow it, but how true are the accusations that Biden didnt allow Space X to up before the election ?

 

1 hour ago, fluffyflops said:

didnt really follow it, but how true are the accusations that Biden didnt allow Space X to up before the election ?

I was following it at the time. We heard that SpaceX offered to mount a mission to return the astronauts but was refused by the administration. Some months later I saw Musk talking about it in an interview. The only "politics" involved at the time seemed to be that they didn't want to embarrass Boeing.

We really know very little and the current politics have gone so far off the rails that we may never get a definitive answer.

There was always a Soyuz vehicle to be used for emergency returns. This wasn't really an emergency, and using the Soyuz had its own political problems.

Was it ever really a problem? Matthew Kane is probably right, that the astronauts themselves considered this 9 months worth of Christmas mornings.

Hook

1 hour ago, fluffyflops said:

didnt really follow it, but how true are the accusations that Biden didnt allow Space X to up before the election ?

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/19/biden-left-astronauts-space-political-gain/

2 hours ago, LHookins said:

but was refused by the administration.

 

As a result of cost to the tax payer, I heard.  150 million, I read. 

 

NASA officials said safety, budget concerns about a separate mission to retrieve the astronauts and a desire to keep a crew on the space station were the reasons.

Edited March 20, 20251 yr by martin-w

19 hours ago, LHookins said:

 

that the astronauts themselves considered this 9 months worth of Christmas mornings.

 

god and my crews complain about an extra nights unscheduled nightstop in the West Indies......

Edited March 21, 20251 yr by fluffyflops